Question

read the following excerpt from the last chapter of the great gatsby. after gatsby's death the east was haunted for me like that, distroted beyond my eyes' power of correction. so when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line i decided to come back home. which statement most plausibly analyzes the aesthetic impact of the excerpt?

Answer 1

The statement which most plausibly analyzes the aesthetic impact of the excerpt is: "After Gatsby's death the east was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes' power of correction." It means that Gatsby's passing had such an impact on the main character that it made him become unable to see the east the same way he did before. The impact was strong and affected not only the main character's emotions, but also his aesthetic sense to the point of making him see the east in a different, "distorted" way, and that beyond his eyes' "power of correction", which means that no matter how hard he tried, after his friend's death the east started to look different, or aesthetically different.

Answer 2

The statement that gives an aesthetic impact is "So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line, I decided to come back home".

The reason is that is explainin how everything ended for him after Gatsby died, how everything they used to enjoy and lived for, how the beauty of everything around them died with him.